Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conclusion, we would assert that the issues of racial unity in general, and Black-Jewish relations in particular, pale in importance next to the opening of this nation's political structure to a segment of the population to which it has traditionally been closed. We further contend that any analysis that attempts to reverse this order is hopelessly skewed and hopelessly racist. Frederick C. Meten '85 Stephen M. Tayler '84 Alan R. Jackson '84 Abner A. Masson '85 Mark E. Brown...
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION was not intended to be either perfect or permanent. It has evolved, through countless legal battles, is the only workable means of redressing past discrimination in a timely manner. To assert, as the Reagan Administration implicitly does, that the United States has arrived at such a harmoniously just state that continued remedial action is no longer necessary would be laughable were it not so sinister. As Norton states. "The fact is that the new equality in American life is a function of the new remedies." Take away the remedies, prematurely, and persistent racial and sexual discrimination--now, under...
...would assert that White's life has been traumatic. But White's mental and physical vulnerability to such attacks has caused most of the troubles of his adult life. These troubles stand out in a story one naively imagines as placid. Indeed, it is the achievement of biographer Elledge that he conveys not only what White has done or meant but what it must be like to be White. He does not simply transcribe the hard facts of accomplishment, tempting though this might be when the subject is alive, he also captures the fluctuating essence of White's predominantly genial...
...romantic comedy that is as salty and bracing as a plunge in the surf. Whenever Daryl Hannah, as the sweetly shallow creature from the deep, and Tom Hanks, as the produce merchant who loves her, start to get goopy, there is a New York City street person available to assert the reality principle: Eugene Levy, splendid as a mad scientist who seems to have wandered in from a Jaws sequel, or John Candy, fine as a man who thinks Penthouse centerfolds are philosophical statements...
...gratuitous labor. If Canaletto had been exposed to minimalism and to early Warhol, he might have come up looking like early Morley. In reproduction, of course, the paintings become postcards again. But on canvas they have a disconcerting air; above their anonymous imagery the paint is beginning to assert itself, its texture and weight anxiously at odds with the bland scenes of middle-class pleasure they describe...